Why McLaren risks long-term failure

Despite its dreadful 2015, McLaren is confident its partnership with Honda will work out. But, as BEN ANDERSON warns, too long without success in Formula 1 can be costly, as Williams knows

McLaren-Honda's terrible results in Formula 1 are regularly making headlines at the moment, but in truth the team has been on a relatively poor run for several seasons now.

Sport is always a sequence of highs and lows, but a sustained run of failure can be enormously damaging for F1 teams, particularly when commercial arrangements mean their budgets are directly affected by what happens on track.